Date
Leader
Topic
Handouts
September 15
Tom Davis
Counting and Pascal’s Triangle
September 22
David Auckly
Triangles take flight
pdf
September 29
Tatiana Shubin
Chromatic Numbers and More
doc
October 06
Meets at Stanford : Terence Tao
The Cosmic Distance Ladder
pdf
October 14
BAMA at SCU : Michael Starbird
Geometric Gems
pdf (back) , pdf (front)
October 20
Joshua Zucker
Breaking Integer Sticks
October 27
David Farmer
The Divisor Function
November 03
Bill Gosper
Pictures Worth Minus One Thousand Words
notes , Click Algebra Lesson at the now bogus Google page
November 10
BAMA at SJSU : Francis Su
Voting in Agreeable Societies
pdf (front) , pdf (back)
November 17
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin, and guests
A Russian-Style Math Circle
hw , hw sol , class , class sol
November 24
Break
Thanksgiving Break
December 01
Yul Inn
Using Induction and Parity to Solve Graph Problems
December 08
Simon Rubinstein-Salzed
Quadratic Reciprocity
notes
December 15
BAMA at SCU : Roger Nelsen
Math Icons: An Exploration of Images
pdf (front and back)
December 22
Break
Winter break
December 29
Break
Winter break
January 05
Dan Goldston
Adding up Infinite Sums and Multiplying Infinite Products
January 12
Joshua Zucker
Circle of Differences
January 19
BAMA at SJSU : Kevin S. McCurley
The Mathematics of Inequality
pdf
January 26
Tatiana Shubin
Geometric Combinatorics: Putnam Exam and Beyond
pdf
February 02
Joshua Zucker
Arithmetic in Non-Base Representations
February 09
Meets at Stanford : Shing-Tung Yau
The Shape of Inner Space. String Theory and the Geometry of the Universe ‘ s Hidden Dimensions
pdf
February 16
Paul Zeitz
BAMO Prep
February 22
BAMA at SJSU : BAMO
BAMO
February 23
BAMA at SCU : Ivars Peterson
The Jungles of Randomness
pdf (back and front)
March 02
Tom Davis and/or Tatiana Shubin
BAMO Aftermath
March 09
Brian Conrey
Gaussian Integers
March 16
BAMA at SJSU : Jim Tanton
Partitions, Weird Languages, Dots and Dashes, and a few more of my Favourite Mathematical Things
pdf (front and back)
March 23
Tom Davis
Inversion in a Circle
pdf
March 30
Tom Davis, Tatiana Shubin and guests
A Russian-style math circle
hw , Problems-and-soluntions
April 06
Lilia Tsalenko
Mathematical Induction
Math Induction problems
April 13
Steve Blasberg
Review of the 2011 AIME
Pression from last week (pdf)
April 20
Dan Goldston
Multiplicative Functions
Pression problems from 4/13 (pdf) , Multiplicative Functions
April 20
Meets at Stanford : Manjul Bhargava
Linguistics, Poetry, and Mathematics
pdf
April 27
Zvezdelina Stankova
Plane Geometry
Plane Geometry problems (pdf) , Presession problems from 4/20 (pdf)
May 04
David Farmer
Square-Root Cancellation
Presession problems from 4/27
May 11
TBD
Pizza and Puzzle Party
Presession problems from May 11 , Pression problems from May 4
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